Sept. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 1467

Removal of Restrictions on Alienation of Native Land.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS application has been made to the Governor by the owner of the lands described in the Schedule hereto, praying that the restrictions on the alienation of such lands contained in the Crown grant bearing date the eighteenth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, and now contained in partition orders of the Native Land Court bearing date the thirtieth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, may be removed: And whereas inquiry has been duly made by the Native Land Court, and the said Court has recommended that such restrictions be removed:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the fifty-second section of “The Native Land Court Act, 1894,” and in accordance with the recommendation of the Native Land Court, doth hereby order and declare that all restrictions imposed by the said Crown grant and the said partition orders on the alienation of the said lands are hereby removed.

SCHEDULE.

ALL that parcel of land, containing 100 acres, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, and being the land known as Whakatomotomo No. 3, held under partition order of the Native Land Court, dated 30th May, 1896, in favour of Huirangi Kingi, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

All that parcel of land, containing 100 acres, situate in the Provincial District of Wellington, and being the land known as Whakatomotomo No. 4, held under partition order of the Native Land Court, dated 30th May, 1896, in favour of Katerina te Wharekura, and containing the following restrictions: “Inalienable by sale, or by lease for a longer period than twenty-one years, or by mortgage, except with the consent of the Governor being previously obtained to every such sale, lease, or mortgage.”

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twelfth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

R. J. SEDDON.

Lands permanently reserved.

RANFURLY, Governor.

WHEREAS by the two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section of “The Land Act, 1892,” it is enacted that the Governor may from time to time, either by general or particular description, and whether the same has been surveyed or not, reserve from sale temporarily, notwithstanding that the same may be then held under pastoral license, any Crown lands which in his opinion are required for any of the purposes in the said section mentioned:

And whereas by the two-hundred-and-thirty-sixth section of the said Act it is provided that land temporarily reserved under the said two-hundred-and-thirty-fifth section may, at the expiration of one month but not later than six months after the publication in the Gazette of notice of such temporary reservation, be permanently reserved, and that notice of such permanent reservation shall be published in the Gazette:

And whereas the lands specified in the first column of the Schedule hereto were, by the warrant the date of which is specified in the third column of the said Schedule, and the notification of which was published in the Gazette specified in the fourth column, temporarily reserved under the authority of the said Act for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule:

Now, therefore, I, Uchter John Mark, Earl of Ranfurly, the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby permanently reserve the lands so temporarily reserved as aforesaid, and enumerated in the first column of the Schedule hereto, for the purposes specified in the second column of the said Schedule, being the same purposes for which the said lands were so temporarily reserved as aforesaid.

SCHEDULE.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twelfth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight.

J. CARROLL,
For Minister of Lands.